Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force. Feb.[February] 1. 1840.

AN ACT to relocate part of a State road therein named.
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Commissioners to relocate road

Route

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Hugh Ferguson, George A. Charles, and John Coleman, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to review, mark, and relocate that part of the State road leading from Knoxville in Knox county, via Charleston, to Peoria, in Peoria county, commencing at the east end of Main street, in the town of Knoxville, running thence due east to the township line between ranges two and three, east, thence north on said line to the centre of section thirty, in township eleven, north of range three east, and from thence due east till it shall intersect the original survey of said road.

Time & place of meeting

Survey & map of road

Sec. 2. Said commissioners shall meet in Knoxville, on or before the first day of June next, or within six months thereafter, and after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace, impartially to view and relocate the same, shall, within fifteen days after the relocation of said road, cause a true survey and map of the same to be lodged with the clerk of the county commissioners’ court of Knox county; said road, when relocated, shall be deemed a public high-way, and opened and kept in repair as other State roads are.

Compensat’n[Compensation]

Sec. 3. The county commissioners’ court shall allow the said commissioners a reasonable compensation for their services.

Approved, February 1, 1840.

1On December 17, 1839, Representative Wyatt B. Stapp introduced HB 22 in the House of Representatives. On January 2, 1840, the House passed the bill. On January 27, 1840, the Senate referred the bill to the Committee on Public Roads. On January 31, the Committee on Public Roads reported the bill without amendment, and the Senate passed the bill. On February 1, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their Called Session, Begun and Held at Springfield, December 9, 1839 (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 44, 80, 117, 312, 327, 329; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their Called Session, Begun and Held in Springfield, December 9, 1839 (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 84, 184, 218.